NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! - Anonymous employee CarMax Employee Review

2.0
Nov 10, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people you actually work with! Customers are the biggest babies in the world, and the job would not be as bad if that was the only thing you have to deal with. Some cool clothes to wear....that's about it

Cons

Again customers are the biggest babies in the WORLD! and it wouldn't be that bad if that was the only thing to deal with, but you have managers who abuse the litte bit of power that they have. You are afraid to ask them anything becasue one day they can be cool and i use that term loosely and the next they can be little girls. Every single one of them have their little things they are known for, the buyers make it hard to do your job too because they may appraise a 2010 BMW 325i for about..15 dollars and look at you like your crazy when the customer doesn't want to sell the car!!! Nothing is ever promised at carmax including your pay, since the doors opened the pay has stayed at 150 a car, carmax opened in 1993 by the way. As I remember being promised that you can make so much money here, after my year and a half I quickly learned that it turned into "you can make a lot of money if you sell 10,000 cars a day! This company is fantastic for finding and hiring people in management that exemplify rudeness, back-stabbing, and eventually destroy the company, the only way you can become a manager in sales is if you make President's club first, that will give them enough time to decide if you will rule with an iron fist..."That's the carmax way!"

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Cons

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Pros

The perks of working at CarMax are quite extensive. Associates are offered an aggressive 401k program, Stock Purchasing Plan, in store discounts on sales and service, access to the CarMax Wholesale system, excellent healthcare, plenty of PTO, and at my location we are given as much OT as we want. My coworkers are generally good people, that I enjoy being able to work along side day in and day out. Management is very understanding in regards to calling out sick family emergencies, and schedule requests.

Cons

Despite doing the work of 5 people, and very politely asking for a raise management will not give me more than my 3% annual raise which is the single biggest let down. The bonus change of 2025 being labeled as "exciting" was straight corporate gaslighting unlike anything I've ever seen. Since the start of 2026, as of this review being written we have lost 7 associates largely due to pay, and I am soon to join those associates. Management from the store level up to corporate needs to understand that to retain their top performers they need to be compensated like a top performer. Some members of management are cliquey and moody which is very frustrating to deal with. Quality of Management varies wildly from store to store as well

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